Exact USCIS category source
I-612 Application for a waiver of the 2-year foreign residence requirement based on exceptional hardship or persecution Processing Time
Application for a waiver of the 2-year foreign residence requirement based on exceptional hardship or persecution
Current published range
20.5–24 months
USCIS publication
Source row
144A
Service Center Operations · SCD
Upper bound of each published range. Source: USCIS processing time publications.
2 office series, plotted separately. Service Center Operations reports this row currently; one office previously reported it and its series ends at its last publication (California Service Center through 2025-07-28). Lines are never drawn between offices.
Dashed lines are offices that no longer report this row; each ends at its last published date for this row.
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Citation
USCIS processing times for Form I-612, Application for a waiver of the 2-year foreign residence requirement based on exceptional hardship or persecution, were 20.5–24 months as of Aug 17, 2026. Source: https://immigrationtimes.org/forms/i-612/categories/144a/. Dataset version DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21311840
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Scope
This page is filtered to the exact USCIS I-612 source row 144A, across all offices and all publications. The current range above is the range published for that row at Service Center Operations. The chart plots the full published history of every office that has reported this row — Service Center Operations and California Service Center — as 2 separate series. Labeled “Application for a waiver of the 2-year foreign residence requirement based on exceptional hardship or persecution.” It is the Application for a waiver of the 2-year foreign residence requirement based on exceptional hardship or persecution category; USCIS publishes no separate bracket eligibility code for it.
For other categories, use the form-wide I-612 source page.
Methodology and limits
Values are copied from USCIS processing time publications and filtered by the exact form and subtype codes above. No other I-612 category, headline range, or office aggregate enters this page.
These published ranges describe USCIS data, not an individual case prediction. This page is informational and is not legal advice.
Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Retrieved from 63 USCIS source publications, issued monthly; latest source publication Aug 17, 2026.